List of Patents. 381 



engineer, " certain improvements in steam-engines, and also improve- 

 ments in feeding or supplying the boilers of the same, part or parts of 

 which improvements are also applicable to other similar puri)ose8." — 4th 

 March 1851. 



61. To John Hetherington, of Manchester, in the county of Lan- 

 caster, machinist, " improvements in machinery for preparing, spianing, 

 and manufacturing fibrous substances," — 4th March 1851. 



62. To Alfred Cooper, of Rumsay, in the county of Hants, grocer, 

 " improvements in steam and other power engines, and in the application 

 thereof to motive purposes ; also in the method of, and machinery for, 

 arresting or checking the progress of locomotive engines and other car- 

 riages." — 5th March 1851. 



63. To Henry Richardson, of Aber, Hernaut Bala, North Wdes, 

 Esquire, ** certain improvements in life-boats." — 7th March 1851. 



64. To William Stones, of Queen Hythe, in the city of London, 

 stationer, " improvements in the manufacture of safety paper for bankers' 

 cheques, bills of exchange, and other like purposes." — 7th March 1851. 



Q5. To Joseph Baldwin and George Collier, mechanics, and Joseph 

 Crossley, all of Halifax, " improvements in the manufacture of carpets 

 and other fabrics." — 12th March 1851. 



QQ. To George Roberts, of Selkirk, in the kingdom of Scotland, manu- 

 facturer, " an improved manufacture of certain yarns of linen, wool, silk, 

 cotton, and other fibrous substances." — 13th March 1851. 



67. To Samuel Brisbane, of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, 

 pattern-maker, "certain improvements in looms for weaving." — 14th 

 March 1851. 



68. To George Guthrie, of Appleby, chamberlain to the Earl of Stair, 

 and residing at Rephad, by Stranraer, in the county of Wigtown, " im- 

 provements in machinery for digging, tilling, or working land." — 14th 

 March 1851. 



69. To Richard Archibald Brooman, of the firm of J. C. Robertson 

 and Company, of 166 Fleet Street, in the city of London, patent- agents, 

 " improvements in purifying water and preparing it for engineering, 

 manufacturing, and domestic purposes ;" being a communication. — 17th 

 March 1851. 



70. To William EccLEs,of Walton-le-Dale, in the county of Lancaster, 

 cotton-spinner, "certain improvements in looms for weaving." — I7th 

 March 1851. 



71. To Edward Lloyd, of Dee Valley, in the county of Merioneth, 

 North Wales, engineer, " certain improvements in steam- engmes, which 

 improvements are, in part, or on the whole, applicable to other motive 

 power." — l7th March 1851. 



72. To Herbert Taylor, of 46 Cross Street, Finsbury, in the county 

 of Middlesex, merchant, " certain improvements in the manufacture of 

 carbonates and oxides of barytes, and oxides of barytes and strontia, 

 sulphur, or sulphuric acid, from the sulphate of barytes and 

 for consequent improvements in the manufacture of carboni 

 of potash and potash ;" being a communication. — 19th Mj 



